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Thank you. I've been quite sceptical of 10000 hours of Deliberate Practice, etc; esp. after seeing Tiger Woods play golf at the age of two : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxPmzIKBris

It's been a long standing tradition to oversell the power of hard work. I believe the word for it is "hopium".

"vassal state" Ha, been some time since I heard that phrase, thanks for that!

Got that from someone whose family works in the CIA, no link.

Edit : Assuming you were not asking for proof, only information, see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehicl.... Note that "After a 10 month search, NASA and NHTSA scientists found no electronic defect in Toyota vehicles. Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents". But the dive in Toyota stock price, sales, and most importantly, brand image, was enough to send the message. Toyota stocked surged 20% after the then-Japanese PM resigned after his failure to get the US off of Okinawa.

Japan does whatever the U.S. tells them to. Or else.

In general, considering the 8 U.S. military bases in Tokyo (not Japan, just Tokyo), and in particular, the 31000 sq metre military base in the centre of the city, in Roppongi (prime real estate worth at least $60 m, with a few military helicopters landing/taking off from there every day, and a lot more towards the weekend), IMHO, Japan is an occupied territory not too different from Afghanistan or Iraq. IMHO, the role of Japan in the scheme of things as designed by the US is to hold US debt, giving legitimacy to the piece of paper printed by the Treasury. The entire Toyota drama was about Japan trying to assert it's independence and not follow orders.

> you're just saying "this person's opinion is bullshit because of the apparent side they have chosen"

Firstly, that is not what I tried to say. I tried to say, "There's a whole bunch of Apple-apologist-upvoters", and for this...

> you are presenting no argument or evidence

...I did present evidence : the comment is the top comment, which means it was upvoted, eh?

I'm not arguing against Apple, but pointing out the prevalance of fawning brand-loyal upvoters.

I'm not being rigorous here, but it seems to me that the top comment on every HN article that points out anything wrong with an Apple product is by an Apple apologist? It's a bit...fawning.

Well, exercise injury is an entire field of study, and hence the existence of the profession of physiotherapy. Yoga is just one more way you can hurt yourself and need a physiotherapist.

There was a great comment on the NYTimes article by someone called Stevi that I would like to quote here, "Yoga doesn't wreck the body. People wreck their bodies by practicing yoga with a lack of awareness and by taking classes from instructors who don't have enough experience. Yoga is an ancient discipline--a tool for self-realization. It's unfair to hold yoga responsible for our misuse of it. Yoga involves an eight-fold path of which asana is only one tenant. If you are practicing asana without without the other aspects of yoga such as ahimsa (non-harm), santosha (contentment), aparigraha (non-greed), etc., then you are destined for problems. Find a good teacher, and yoga is the greatest gift."

The parent did not say that the jokes about men were at technical conferences. I believe he was referring to all domains, not just programming / technical conferences.

People jumped off the factory building and committed suicide at Foxconn. And the sensitive folks at Foxconn, with the blessing of Steve "Foxconn is not a sweatshop" Jobs, put up nets to prevent them from jumping instead of improving working conditions. I believe that the Amazon warehouse is much better than this.

> And that start screen looks like it was written for 5 year olds.

That's how the average user IS. That's what Apple has shown us with the phenomenal success of their iPhone, iPad products. It's the "Don't make me think" philosophy taken to an extreme.

I'm guessing that you are probably like me, a command line aficionado. They call it "simplification" of the user interface, but we feel that there's an element of idioticization there, too! :-) I mean, how do they get things done when there's no place to TYPE?! It's scary to have no place to type. :-)

Her web site features her looks more than her books. (In case it changes : 80% of the space is occupied by a photo of hers, and 20% by textual content). Do as I say, not as I do.

"According to Dangerfield, the officers "did not go inside the house," but stood outside while the Apple employees scoured Calderón's home, car, and computer files"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_impersonation

Apple has not brought us anywhere in particular : people have always been that passive. The iPad's popularity is because of the lack of a keyboard for these 95% of the population. For folks like you and me, it is despite the lack of a keyboard.

IMO, women who use their sexuality as a playing card are the first in line to complain that they are not being treated like a "lady".

Leaving my way of communication ("whoring") aside, would you agree that she is playing the gender card?

You are right that I went overboard.

I could potentially point out politely that she is playing the gender card.

> I’m going to tell you a story and it’s very, very important. Please read it, all the way through. Women’s lives are at stake.

So it's very, very, important to read this because a particular gender's lives are at stake, and this gender, lest you forget, is very, very important.

Have you ever seen a man write like this, ever ready to use their gender as a VIP card?

Then there's her "business" icon. Is that a semi-stripper?? Is that a post-it note? Is her skirt hanging down into the space between the Y?

Have you ever seen many men promote their businesses using their sexuality or gender as a card?

No, this is not a "vicious" hate crime or "attack" on Women Bloggers. This is an "attack" on A particular woman blogger who is clearly using her gender as both a food stamp and a responsibility-shield to get by in this world. For a counterexample, @see jeanhsu.com. No whoring there.

I love the fact that he has his own mailing list instead of a blog. The internet continues to surprise me every day.

Oh please, Microsoft Surface...how many years ago was that before your precious iPad? There is probably not a single thing that Apple designed that is not without precedent. It just looks that way to your infatuated eyes.

You just increased average developer productivity tens of times. I can already see the haters hate this new easy way to "code by copy paste", but for people who just want to use code to get things done, i.e., all 100% of coders, including the haters, this is a revolutionary boon.

I bet that this is just lip service, and that the on-the-ground reality will be that, paradoxically, Muslims in Norway will be under more pressure to prove that they are not terrorists. This is how psychological sublimation works : as long as the Norwegians stick to Christianity (and blue eye + blonde hair) as part of their identity, they will be unable to accept that an avowed Christian did what the "other religion" was supposed to be hated for, and the psychological dissonance has to be released elsewhere. This is what religion does to you.

> There are alternative frontends to the Google market, such as AppBrain, of which I'm one of the co-founders.

FYI, I have a new Android phone (Galaxy S2) and I would have never realized this had I not been on HN! I wonder how you can get yourself more publicity? Maybe advertise more?

OK, Aaron.

Personal anecdote : I've had to take Ibuprofen once. I then understood why the Hollywood-types get addicted to pain-killers : it takes away not merely the pain, but the fear of it that has been bothering you, and even psychological pains in a somatopsychic direction by numbing your body in a way that only a truly relaxed person feels in their deep sleep.

Let me guess : by taking up 100% CPU? Irritated me the whole day.

Desktop OS : Windows XP. Casper to clone the C drive (OS). xxcopy to make a backup of D drive (data). svn repository on the desktop PC.

Some apps such as OneNote sync themselves between my laptop (Windows 7) and desktop PC (XP).

For others, such as Firefox Scrapbook, I run a manual rsync (on cygwin) running via an ssh tunnel. svn and remote desktop access, too, are via the ssh tunnel.

No DropBox, no Microsoft SkyDrive.

To me, it's interesting that almost no discussion of the H-1B touches on another topic that is widely discussed, too, but in it's own mindspace : the U.S. is now a scary place. The eager use of tasers by the police and the presence of the TSA goons on trains and buses in addition to airports add unpleasant possibilities to the anti-immigrant sentiment (not to mention the moral questions about the whole War on Terror, Guantanamo, etc;). I have never heard of instances of immigrants getting tased just for looking different, for example, but these are things to consider when immigrating to a new country : are they friendly, are they peaceful? Do I want to be associated with them? Am I that unhappy in my own situation that I really need to go to such a place?

I take a bus to the library and spend some time there, interspersed with many breaks which involve walking to a nearby tea house. Taking a bus outsources the attention-drain of driving while still being conducive to the trance-like free-floating state of mind in which one can feed the thoughts to the unknown and allow the ideas to come to you.

Most of the times that I have sat down at the same desk for 2 hours, I have regretted it. It's sub-optimal unless you are literally just typing in what is already known.

I do not even see the need for justification : After LINQ and Rx and the maturing of Mono, .NET is now far ahead of the Java ecosystem, even including Scala 2.9, in terms of developer productivity. The only reason I am having to learn Scala is that I am already quite familiar with the Java ecosystem (having used it at work for many years before I started doing something on my own) and do not wish to start from scratch in the .NET world.

I suppose it's issues like this that make tablet PC creators choose a single-tasking (or rather, single-app-controls-the-screen) model?